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While waiting for the article to load i was thinking - was zero or one the first number? Or was it two, because you need at least two to start counting? Then i
by Merkur 8y ago
While waiting for the article to load i was thinking - was zero or one the first number? Or was it two, because you need at least two to start counting?
Then i realized that i was offtopic in a kinda funny way
- jtbayly 8y agoSame here.
- TomVDB 8y agoYou were not alone. My reaction was “I’m applying for. CS job, not for a job in philosophical mathematics.”
- AnthonBerg 8y ago1, it has to be 1 right? I was exactly there too.
- excalibur 8y agoEtymologically speaking, I feel like the first number was most likely "two". The idea of quantifying things wouldn't be relevant unless you had multiple items to bother counting.
- rsynnott 8y agoYes, I was thinking it had to be 2, because 0 is a bit of an abstract concept, and you don’t really need 1 as a concept before you already have numbers. I assumed we were talking annoying abstract thinking interview questions. I was quite confused to find all the comments going on about salary.